Sydney Chamber Choir at the Luisenkirche, Berlin - Charlottenburg

Name: Sydney Chamber Choir at the Luisenkirche, Berlin - Charlottenburg
Start: 2025-05-02T20:00:00+0200
End: 2025-05-02T21:00:00+0200
Location: Luisenkirche - Ev. Luisen-Kirchengemeinde

Fri, 2 May, 8pm - 9pm CEST

Luisenkirche - Ev. Luisen-Kirchengemeinde

berlin, germany

Sydney Chamber Choir

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Sydney Chamber Choir
Sam Allchurch | Conductor

Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025, Sydney Chamber Choir is one of Australia’s leading chamber choirs. Join the choir for this first concert on their tour of Germany.

Experience transcendent music in praise of the divine by J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Australian composers Nigel Butterley and Brooke Shelley, and Canadian Healey Willan. Journey through ancient landscapes and the vibrant seasons of Australia with the finest Australian choral works by Ross Edwards, Heather Percy, Paul Stanhope, and Joe Twist. And let the timeless melodies of The Beatles and Irving Berlin carry you into the night.

Der Sydney Chamber Choir feiert im Jubiläumsjahr 2025 sein 50-jähriges Bestehen und ist einer der führenden Kammerchöre Australiens. Begleiten Sie den Chor bei diesem ersten Konzert seiner Deutschlandtournee.

Erleben Sie transzendente Musik zum Lob des Göttlichen von J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, den australischen Komponisten Nigel Butterley und Brooke Shelley sowie dem Kanadier Healy Willan. Reisen Sie durch uralte Landschaften und die pulsierenden Jahreszeiten Australiens mit den schönsten australischen Chorwerken von Ross Edwards, Heather Percy, Paul Stanhope und Joe Twist. Und lassen Sie sich von den zeitlosen Melodien der Beatles und Irving Berlins in die Nacht tragen.

Program includes:

JS Bach Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - Part 1 (Erster Teil)
Nigel Butterley Morning Fanfare (Morningfanfare)
Mendelssohn Jauchzet dem Herrn
Brooke Shelley Praise the Lord (Lobet den Herrn)
Healey Willan I Beheld Her, Beautiful as a Dove (Ich sah sie, schön wie eine Taube) Fair in Face (Schön im Antlitz) & Rise Up, My Love, My Fair One (Erhebe dich, meine Liebe, meine Schöne)

Ross Edwards Ab estatis foribus An den Toren des Sommers)
Heather Percy Pink Swallows Blue (Rosa löst sich in Blau auf)
Brooke Shelley Heavenly Father (Vater im Himmel)
Paul Stanhope The Land is healed: Ban.garay! (Das Land ist geheilt: Ban.garay!)
Joe Twist Magpie (Elster)

Irving Berlin (arr. Vance) Cheek to Cheek
John Lennon & Paul McCartney (arr. Whitwell) Yesterday

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Sydney Chamber Choir is passionate about choral music and its unique ability to celebrate and reflect upon the stores of our past, present and future.

We love to travel deep inside the music to meet the composers and bring their vision alive in sound. We reach back to explore the masterpieces of the Baroque and the Renaissance, while also championing the music of our own time and place, regularly commissioning works by established and emerging Australian composers. In recent years, the choir has premiered new works by Brenda Gifford, Ella Macens, Harry Sdraulig, Brooke Shelley, Paul Stanhope, Joe Twist and Elizabeth Younan. In both 2022 and 2023, the APRA-AMCOS Award for Choral Work of the Year went to works written for and premiered by us: Paul Stanhope's Requiem, and Heather Percy's Three Night Songs.

Formed in 1975, we have been honoured to work with guest conductors such as Carl Crossin, Roland Peelman, Elizabeth Scott and Brett Weymark, as well as our three previous directors, Nicholas Routley, Paul Stanhope and the late Richard Gill AO. We collaborate with leading Australian ensembles and instrumentalists, including the Australian Haydn Ensemble, the Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra, Slava Grigoryan, Synergy Percussion, Joseph Tawadros and The Muffat Collective. We also enjoy more unconventional partnerships, including concerts with the Hilltop Hoods, The Idea of North and the Sydney Mardi Gras Community Choir.

The choir appeared at the 2023 Adelaide Chamber Music Festival, the 2022 Canberra International Music Festival and the 2021 Sydney Festival, and we tour regularly in regional NSW, most recently to Goulburn in September 2024. We have sung in Hong Kong, Taiwan and the UK, and in 2009 the choir was a prizewinner in the Tolosa International Choral Competition in Spain. In May 2025, we will return to Europe to give concerts in Berlin, Hannover and Leipzig.

Our performances have been broadcast across the country on ABC Classic and on 2MBS Fine Music Sydney, and our CD recordings are available on the ABC Classic and Tall Poppies labels, and via download and streaming services.

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Fri, 2 May, 8pm - 9pm CEST

Luisenkirche - Ev. Luisen-Kirchengemeinde

berlin, germany

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